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fs/ufs/super.c: fix potential race condition
Let locking subsystem decide on mutex management. As reported by Andrew Morton this patch fixes a bug: : lock_ufs() is assuming that on non-preempt uniprocessor, the calling : code will run atomically up to the matching unlock_ufs(). : : But that isn't true. The very first site I looked at (ufs_frag_map) : does sb_bread() under lock_ufs(). And sb_bread() will call schedule(), : very commonly. : : The ->mutex_owner stuff is a bit hacky but should work OK. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <[email protected]> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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